Reading Walter De La Mare

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571347148

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Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare Pdf

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's finest poems, including perennial favourites such as 'Napoleon', 'Fare Well' and 'The Listeners', for a twenty-first-century audience. The poems are accompanied by commentaries by William Wootten, which build up a portrait of de la Mare's life, loves and friendships with the likes of Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Katherine Mansfield. They also point out the fascinating references to literature, folklore and the natural world that embroider the verse.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571305582

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Snow by Walter de la Mare Pdf

'No breath of wind, No gleam of sun Still the white snow Whirls softly down' As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree, hanging stockings by the fire, putting out a plate of mince pies... Outside, the world turns to white.

Author : F. R. Leavis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571306732

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New Bearings in English Poetry by F. R. Leavis Pdf

It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously wounded by poison gas on the Western Front, and he was not disposed to suffer foolishness gladly. His opening sentences were arresting: 'Poetry matters little to the modern world. That is, very little of contemporary intelligence concerns itself with poetry'. What followed was nothing less than the welcoming of a revolution in English verse, set against the moral and social crisis that followed the trauma of the First World War. It was this situation, this feeling of breakdown and disorder, that gave such force to Leavis's dismissal of most late Romantic poetry and his welcoming of the modernists T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and of the writer who Leavis regarded as their forebear, Gerard Manley Hopkins. The tone of high moral urgency, and the message that the experience of literature could become an engagement with life that was almost a secular equivalent to religion, seemed new and abrasively refreshing. Leavis despised the reigning dilettantism in both poetry and criticism, and in this book he threw down the gauntlet to the establishment as he understood it. In the same year he founded the journal Scrutiny, and began his long career as the most formidably serious literary critic of his time.

Author : Walter De la Mare
Publisher : London : Faber
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571113826

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The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare by Walter De la Mare Pdf

Contains poems that have appeared together by themselves for the first time.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571307203

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The Ride-by-Nights by Walter de la Mare Pdf

Up on their brooms the Witches stream, Crooked and black in the crescent's gleam It's Halloween and a family is preparing to go trick-or-treating. Little do they know that up above them a coven of witches flies unseen through the starry sky... Carolina's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's thrilling, magical poem, published as a picture book for the first time.

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571282074

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The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage Pdf

The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur. Like Gawain, the Alliterative Morte Arthure is a unique manuscript (held in the library of Lincoln Cathedral) by an anonymous author, and written in alliterating lines which harked back to Anglo-Saxon poetic composition. Unlike Gawain, whose plot hinges around one moment of jaw-dropping magic, The Death of King Arthur deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314713

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Silver by Walter de la Mare Pdf

Slowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees; One spring evening, the fairies gather in the woods. Two sleepy children join in the parade to a wonderful, dream-like fairy party. Illustrated by bright new talent, Carolina Rabei, this Walter de la Mare poem is brought to life with shimmery, ethereal illustrations, making it the perfect book for bedtime. One of four seasonal Walter de la Mare picture books that form a set, each with complementing colour palates and illustrations by rising young star Carolina.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314683

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Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare Pdf

The sandy cat by the Farmer's chairMews at his knee for dainty fare;Old Rover in his moss-greened houseMumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. Carolina Rabei's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's glorious celebration of a balmy summer's evening. One of four exceptional Walter de la Mare picture books that form a seasonal set, each with complementing colour palates and illustrations by rising young star Carolina Rabei.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571313907

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Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare Pdf

The perfect gift for children aged 8+, this stunning classic collection of poetry will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list. Peacock Pie contains the finest of Walter de la Mare's poems for children, accompanied by exquisite original illustrations from Edward Ardizzone. This beautiful new edition of a classic anthology is an essential part of any child's bookshelf.

Author : Walter De la Mare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American poetry
ISBN : IND:32000002988501

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Come Hither by Walter De la Mare Pdf

A collection of rhymes and poems for the young of all ages.

Author : Walter De la Mare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:33000803

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Seven Short Stories by Walter De la Mare Pdf

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1567921647

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The Turnip by Walter de la Mare Pdf

A kind but poor farmer gains a fortune and his rich brother's envy when he grows an enormous turnip.

Author : Walter De La Mare
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781434401540

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The Listeners and Other Poems by Walter De La Mare Pdf

This selection of Walter de la Mare's finest dark poems -- many with fantasy and supernatural themes -- draws from such sources as The Saturday Review, The Thrush, The Pall Mall Magazine, The Odd Volume, The Lady's Realm, The English Review, The Westminster Gazette, The Commonwealth, and The Nation. Included are "The Dark Chateau," "The Witch," "The Ghost," and more.

Author : Walter de la Mare
Publisher : Creative Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1568463375

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Dream Song by Walter de la Mare Pdf

This dreamy poem about all the kinds of light at the "shut of day" evokes a world of wonder.

Author : Walter De la Mare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015083457104

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The Three Royal Monkeys ; Or, The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter De la Mare Pdf